Though it sounds like a fairy tale, “Rapunzel Syndrome” is quite the opposite. A 38-year-old woman suffering from the rare disorder recently endured a nightmare: large hairballs in her GI tract that ...

For one woman, the inability to keep any food down was caused by an incredibly rare condition called "Rapunzel syndrome," according to a new report of her case. Named for the fairy tale princess with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A young girl in England recently died after a hairball in her gastrointestinal system became infected and caused a fatal blockage ...

One hell of a haircut. Doctors in Pune, India, recently operated on a 10-year-old girl to remove a 10-oz. hairball, equivalent in size to a roll of paper towels, from her stomach. The child was ...

Rapunzel syndrome is associated with trichotillomania, a psychiatric illness in which patients have an overwhelming urge to yank out their hair. When a 38-year-old woman showed up recently at a U.S.

Jasmine Beever of Skegness in the UK had only just attended her grandfather's funeral a few days before her own untimely death. On Sept. 7, Jasmine collapsed while at school and went home to rest. A ...

After a month of unexplained bouts of stomach pain, an otherwise healthy 16-year-old girl arrived at the emergency department of Massachusetts General Hospital actively retching and in severe pain. A ...

The unnamed 16-year-old girl had been chewing her own hair over the past 10 years and these collected in her stomach. Doctors removed the hairball weighing over 1 pound or about 454 grams during ...

A 17-year-old woman from the UK is recovering well after doctors discovered a foot-and-a-half long hairball had literally torn through her stomach. A new report in BMJ Case Reports describes the ...

News this week that a 16-year-old girl in England died from a gastrointestinal infection caused by a hair ball has put a rare condition known as Rapunzel syndrome in the spotlight. Named after the ...

After reports that a 16-year-old girl in the United Kingdom appears to have died from complications after eating her own hair, you may be wondering what "Rapunzel syndrome" means. It may be named ...

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